GeForce GT 720M and GeForce 7800 GS 20Pipes AGP - video card comparison

GeForce GT 720M

GeForce 7800 GS 20Pipes AGP

Architecture

Fermi (2010−2014)

Curie (2003−2013)

GPU code name

N14M-GE

G70

Market segment

Laptop

Desktop

Release date

April 2013

February 2006

Bus support

PCI Express 2.0

-

Interface

PCIe 2.0 x8

AGP 8x

Supplementary power connectors

-

1x Molex

Boost clock speed

938 MHz

-

Core clock speed

625 MHz

425 MHz

Floating-point performance

240.0 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

110 nm

Number of transistors

915 million

302 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

96

-

Power consumption (TDP)

33 Watt

75 Watt

Texture fill rate

12.13

8.500

Memory type

DDR3

GDDR3

Maximum RAM amount

2 GB

512 MB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

1800 - 2000 MHz

1250 MBps

Memory bandwidth

12.8 GB/s

40 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Standard memory configuration

DDR3

-

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x DVI, 1x VGA, 1x S-Video

eDP 1.2 signal support

Up to 2560x1600

-

LVDS signal support

Up to 1920x1200

-

VGA аnalog display support

Up to 2048x1536

-

DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support

Up to 2560x1600

-

HDCP content protection

+

-

HDMI

+

-

7.1 channel HD audio on HDMI

+

-

DirectX

12 API

9.0c (9_3)

CUDA

+

-

OpenCL

1.1

N/A

OpenGL

4.5

2.1

Shader Model

5.1

3.0

Vulkan

1.1.126

N/A

Blu-Ray 3D Support

+

-

H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder

+

-

Optimus

+

-

TrueHD and DTS-HD audio bitstreaming

+

-